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	League of Polish Families - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The League of Polish Families (Liga Polskich Rodzin, or LPR) is a conservative extremist political party within the Polish Parliament, and a coalition partner in Poland's current ruling government.
		Although it was the only significant political force in Poland that unconditionally opposed Polish membership in the European Union (believing that a union formed by social liberals could never be reformed), after Polish accession to the EU the party participated in European Parliament elections, in order to have actual influence over decisions made regarding Poland.
		The Parade took place despite the ban, and eggs, stones and bottles were thrown at the marchers by young people (nearly all men) from the All-Polish Youth (Młodzież Wszechpolska) youth organisation (a Youth group associated with the League of Polish Families), with at least two people injured and hospitalized.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/League_of_Polish_Families (909 words)

	All-Polish Youth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The organisation, properly the Academic Union "All-Polish Youth" (Związek Akademicki "Młodzież Wszechpolska"), was founded in 1922 as an ideological youth organisation with a strong nationalist sentiment, and was the largest student organisation in the Second Polish Republic.
		The term "All-Polish" is intended to represent a desire to unify all Polish lands, and accentuate national ties and the equality of all people of Polish origin regardless of their wealth or social status.
		The modern incarnation of the All-Polish Youth was founded in Poznań in 1989, on the initiative of Roman Giertych, the current leader of the League of Polish Families (LPR).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/All-Polish_Youth (1383 words)

	Roman Giertych - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is also currently a member of Sejm, lower house of the Polish parliament (elected in 2001), and chairman of League of Polish Families party.
		Roman Giertych comes from a prominent family of Polish nationalist politicians, being a son of Maciej Giertych and a grandson of Jędrzej Giertych.
		Prior to the 2003 Polish referendum on EU membership, the LPR campaigned vehemently against it, denouncing it as a "centralised, socialist superstate".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_Giertych (445 words)

	Analysis: European Elections In Poland -- Everybody's Happy, For Now - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The showing of the League of Polish Families, which has consistently opposed Poland's integration with the EU the past several years, is the biggest surprise of the 13 June ballot.
		The League of Polish Families on 13 June doubled its gain from the 2001 parliamentary election, when it obtained less than 8 percent of the vote.
		Polish commentators suggest that the League of Polish Families owes its political successes primarily to campaigning by Radio Maryja, an enormously influential media outlet among the ultra-Catholic, nationalist-minded electorate.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/06/9a56b1a3-068e-4dcc-9d5f-6d94c5b9816d.html?napage=2 (1085 words)

	Poland: Official Homophobia Threatens Basic Freedoms (Human Rights Watch, 5-6-2006)
		In a letter sent on May 12, Wojciech Wierzejski, a member of parliament whose extremist League of Polish Families party sits in government, urged the justice and interior ministries to investigate the LGBT organizations’ activities and financing.
		Roman Giertych, leader of the League of Polish Families, became deputy prime minister and minister of education.
		The All-Polish Youth is affiliated with the League of Polish Families, and was founded in 1989 by Education Minister Giertych.
	hrw.org /english/docs/2006/06/05/poland13512_txt.htm (586 words)

	The GULLY \| Europe \| Hope for Love in Poland?
		All-Polish Youth is the attack-dog militia of the Catholic, ultra-nationalist League of Polish Families, the country's most powerful far-right party.
		Members of the League of Polish Families attacked Nieznalska verbally and physically at the Gdansk gallery where her "Passion" installation was being exhibited last year.
		The artist is the victim of an ideological vision of a religious state, which the League of Polish Families is attempting to impose on Polish society.
	www.thegully.com /essays/gaymundo/040111_lgbt_poland.html (1285 words)

	Serge Truffaut \| Poland's Challenge to the European Union
		Composed exclusively of Catholic ultras, the League seduced a not-negligible number of voters by demonizing the European Union, as well as cultivating homophobia and xenophobia.
		For here, after the episode of Jörg Haider in Austria and Silvio Berlusconi's association with the xenophobes of the Northern League and the fascists of the National Alliance, is a third country that chooses to conjugate politics with the negation of Europe.
		Kasimierz Marcinkiewicz's new conservative Polish government's choice to rely in Parliament on two parties considered extremist - the Catholic ultras of the League of Polish families and the Samoobrena (Self-Defense) populists - is a challenge launched at the European Union to which Poland has been a member since May 1, 2004.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/printer_111405H.shtml (923 words)

	Bartholomew's notes on religion
		Touting red-and-white Polish flags, thousands of members of a Polish youth organization opposed to special rights for homosexuals marched through Warsaw today in a so-called "Normal Parade" in answer to a recent "gay pride" event in the city.
		Speaking to the marchers, League of Polish Families leader and member of parliament Roman Geirtych said that as a predominantly Catholic country Poland could not build its future on "pederasts" but rather on the family.
		The solution of the Jewish problem is essential for Polish internal security; Poles are not in control of their own country and this is why honest Poles, according to Giertych, should follow the example of Germany.
	blogs.salon.com /0003494/2005/06/20.html (833 words)

	POLAND'S ELECTIONS: Maciej Giertych – "Poland Above All!" (1-2%) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Maciej Giertych was born on March 24, 1936, in Warsaw, into the family of the well known Polish politician, historian and publicist, Jedrzej Giertych.
		He also asserted that Silesia is a historic Polish territory and that 2 million Germans expelled from there after the WW II- is an exaggerated figure.
		When in the spring of 2005 a question of choosing a candidate for the presidential elections was raised in the League of Polish Families, Maciej Giertych received the total support of his colleagues in the party, the chairman of which is his son Roman.
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=416 (986 words)

	Independent Media Center \| www.indymedia.org \| ((( i )))
		On May 7 in Cracow, skinheads of a parliamentary party League of Polish Families attacked a peaceful demonstration of gays, lesbians and their supporters with slurs and stones and caustic acid.
		On November 20 in Poznan, skinheads of the League fired teargas at the feminist and anti-homophobic March of Equality.
		At the instigation of the League of Polish Families, Nieznalska was indicted and sentenced to “freedom restriction in the form of penal labor.”
	www.indymedia.org /fr/2004/12/866390.shtml (2707 words)

	POLAND'S ELECTIONS: Brief Information About the Participants
		League of Polish Families (Liga Polskich Rodzin – LPR) – Created in 2001 as the block of national-catholic parties and movements (Stronnictwo Narodowe, Porozumienie Polskie, Ruch Katolicko-Narodowy, Przymierze dla Polski).
		Polish Social Democrats (Socjaldemokracja Polska – SdPl) was founded in 2004, after the internal split in SLD.
		According to the Polish Constitution, 2 places in the Parliament are reserved for the representatives of the German community.
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=396 (1313 words)

	UK Gay News - Gay Rights in Poland Cause New Political Storm
		Wojciech Wierzejski of the far-right League of Polish Families (LPR) said in a letter addressed to Interior Minister Ludwik Dorn and Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro that the law enforcement authorities should check what he called “legal and illegal sources of financing” of organizations grouping homosexual activists.
		The organization also said it found out in the survey that a young Polish woman reported she was raped by a stranger who found out she was lesbian, saying it was supposed to be a punishment.
		Gays Are Cowards – Polish MP In an extraordinary outburst in the press, a Polish politician has hit out at next month’s Warsaw Equality March (Warsaw Gay Pride) and gays in general.
	www.ukgaynews.org.uk /Archive/2006may/1603.htm (957 words)

	The GULLY \| Gay Mundo \| Anti-Gay Panic Sweeps Poland
		A discredited American "conversion therapist" has been welcomed in the Polish Parliament, while Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ," is hailed as a transcendent masterpiece, and used to advance a violent proto-Catholic nationalism, as rabidly anti-Semitic as it is homophobic.
		In case the organizers had not gotten the message, the mayor approved counter-demonstrations by the far-right League of Polish Families and their violent All Polish Youth, announced for the same day and the same place.
		The League of Polish Families have their fingers in every anti-gay activity in Poland, from skinhead violence to homophobic legislation.
	www.thegully.com /essays/gaymundo/040827_gay_lesbian_poland.html (1855 words)

	Poland’s Criminal Probe of Gays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The League of Polish Families joined the reactionary coalition government led by the Kacyznskis’ Law and Justice Party on May 5, in a deal that saw League chairman Giertych rewarded with the education post.
		A front-group for Giertych’s League of Polish Families, the Association for Catholic Culture—many of whose officers are prominent League politicians—last month distributed in Polish public schools an anti-gay brochure affirming that “discrimination against homosexuals, like that against people who don‘t want to work, is necessary for the public good and for the happiness of individuals.
		Polish gay organizations are fearful of violent attacks on the Gay Pride March for Equality scheduled for Saturday, June 10 in Warsaw.
	www.gaycitynews.com /gcn_523/polandscriminalprobe.html (1779 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Polish rightwingers stoke Israeli concern
		Israel and the US have warned the Polish government of their deep concern at the inclusion of a highly conservative party in Warsaw's coalition cabinet.
		Rising anti-semitism in Poland has prompted diplomats to express their unease at the presence of the League of Polish Families at the cabinet table.
		The chief rabbi warned that the presence of the League of Polish Families in the government encouraged such incidents.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,,1790433,00.html (671 words)

	israelinsider: Briefs: ADL concerned about 'extremist' parties in Poland's new coalition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Anti-Defamation League expressed concern Tuesday that Poland's government has sealed a coalition with "bigots and extremists," and urged the prime minister to halt the deal until a controversial leader renounces past remarks deemed anti-Semitic.
		Cohen also said his group was concerned about the League of Polish Families for its use of anti-Jewish rhetoric - such a railing against "Judeo-Communist" plots - and its closeness to Radio Maryja, a controversial Roman Catholic radio station.
		Polish prosecutors opened an investigation Friday into a Radio Maryja commentator who accused Jews in a late March broadcast of making a "business" of Holocaust reparation payments.
	web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Briefs/8393.htm (519 words)

	Long Island Press: Long Island Newspaper, News, Entertainment, Real Estate, Classifieds, Automotive, Weddings, Business ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The League and Self-Defence opposed Poland's European Union entry in 2004 but have since toned down their criticism of the bloc and free-market reforms.
		The League's radical youth group raised eyebrows when pictures were published of its members giving the Nazi salute.
		Roman Giertych (L), leader of radical right-wing party "League of Polish Families", and Andrzej Lepper, leader of fringe group Self-Defence, listen to questions from the media during a news conference at the Polish Parliament in Warsaw April 21, 2006.
	www.longislandpress.com /reuters/1_ds_171881.php (741 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New York, NY, May 1, 2006 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed "grave concern" to Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz about the prospect of his forming a coalition government with the extremist political parties Self-Defence and the League of Polish Families.
		Lepper received an honorary doctorate from MAUP, a private Ukrainian university that is the main source of anti-Semitic propaganda and agitation in Ukraine, according to ADL.
		In the recent past, leaders of the League of Polish Families have spoken of "Judeo-communist" plots and made other anti-Semitic statements.
	www.adl.org /PresRele/ASInt_13/4907_13.htm (309 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - International - Polish conservatives eye majority with nationalists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Roman Giertych (L), leader of the right-wing party "League of Polish Families", and Andrzej Lepper, leader of the leftist group Self-Defence, are seen at the Polish Parliament in Warsaw April 21, 2006.
		The League's leader Roman Giertych, a controversial figure due to his nationalist, anti-Western views, would become an education minister in a reshuffled cabinet of Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, sources and Polish media said.
		The League's radical youth group has raised eyebrows when pictures were published of its members giving the Nazi salute, even though Giertych has repeatedly denied his group was anti-Semitic.
	news.scotsman.com /latest_international.cfm?id=677572006 (866 words)

	the beatroot: The Polish version of those cartoons?
		The conviction of Dorota Nieznalska on the charge of insulting religious feelings is shocking proof that the fundamental statute of the Polish Republic is not respected in a country which until recently seemed to be a symbol of freedom.
		The principle of the freedom of expressing one’s views has been totally violated and has made the artist a victim of an ideologised vision of a religious state, which the League of Polish Families is attempting to impose on Polish society.
		What has been most characteristic, so far, of the new regime has been developments which seem to show that the League of Polish Families is not the only party to share the vision of a new Polsh constitution with Catholicism playing the moral foundation of the state.
	beatroot.blogspot.com /2006/02/polish-version-of-those-cartoons.html (1107 words)

	Polish President Kaczynski visits Berlin
		Kaczynski embodies a Polish nationalism that unites virulent anticommunism and Catholic bigotry with the conviction that Poland has for centuries been a victim of its neighbours, and should now be compensated by the entire world.
		The Polish elite confronts a dilemma: on the one hand, it strives for national grandeur, but on the other, it is surrounded by more powerful neighbours, whom it can match neither economically nor politically.
		Moreover, the Polish government has isolated itself by its numerous manoeuvres within the EU—its blocking of the EU constitution in December 2003, its threats to Germany in 2004 regarding reparations, and the dispute over the EU budget with Britain at the end of 2005.
	wsws.org /articles/2006/mar2006/kacz-m22.shtml (1842 words)

	Poland News Report 2005-6
		This Saturday’s march organised by the Polish youth an offshoot of the radical right acquired the consent of the city mayor and was joined in by the rightist League of Polish Families an ultra Catholic national grouping.
		Anti-gay, misogynic and xenophobic prejudices are bred in Poland.
		Polish legislation, educational and other policies at national and local level, the media, the arts and sports hardly allow for a minimum of breathing space for Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender people (LGBT) to live their lives freely, healthily and in dignity.
	www.globalgayz.com /poland-news05.html (7691 words)

	Warsaw \| News \| Parade of 'Normality'
		It acquired the consent of the city mayor and was joined by the rightist League of Polish Families, an ultra Catholic national grouping.
		The event was joined by the head of the League of Polish families Roman Giertych who said there is no place in Polish public life for gays and lesbians.
		At the same time a counter parade marched through the city centre organized by the opponents of the Polish Youth, who wanted to manifest their disapproval of a movement they consider fascist.
	www.warsaw-life.com /news/news/615-Parade_of_'Normality' (211 words)

	Gay News From 365Gay.com
		Wojciech Wierzejski, a leading member of the League of Polish Families, in a letter to Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro and Interior Minister Ludwik Dorn called for a criminal investigation into the "illegal sources of financing" of Polish gay groups.
		The League of Polish Families has been a longtime opponent of LGBT civil rights in Poland and has called for the use of force to stop gay pride marches.
		In April a right wing youth group with ties to the party and the government of President Lech Kaczynski attacked marchers in a parade for tolerance in the southern city of Krakow.
	www.365gay.com /Newscon06/05/051706polpol.htm (447 words)

	Warsaw Voice - Turning Out
		Following two days of fierce fighting in parliament and many obstruction attempts by the League of Polish Families (LPR), the Sejm has adopted amendments to the European Referendum Law, permitting publication of the estimated turnout.
		Still, the League of Polish Families (LPR) attempted to block the law by submitting over 300 corrections-the amendments themselves amounted to a single page of typed text.
		The Lithuanian referendum gave rise to a surge of optimism among Polish politicians; with a 60-percent turnout, over 90 percent of Lithuanians supported EU accession.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /view/2280 (374 words)

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